For Authors
POAJ is a peer reviewed open access journal where an efficient author can submit their manuscript works, original papers, posters, presentations, research notes, reviews, miniature & supplemental articles, technical reports & short communications for the process of peer review.
For Author | Author Guidelines
The author must take care that the manuscript submitted must be easy to use and must follow few author guidelines. An author must remember that the work must be the original one and must not be repetitive. One must avoid the publishing of the same manuscript in one or more journals at a time. As this might create a mess and violate the ethics of the publication. The authors must maintain high editorial standards. One must perform the language editing before submitting it to the peer review process. The authors must be highly dedicated & professional towards work. An author must remember that the work must reach out with a greater impact and it must have an open access viability. One must maintain the retentionship, ownership & the copyright of the published research. One can obtain the discounts of the authorships from the leading pro agencies, publishing groups & can work out for the manuscript publication. References must be given either from the AMA format style of writing & Vancouver style of referencing etc.
The author guidelines differ as per the standards of publication & with respect to the organization or the agencies that one works for. Each organization or the agency has their own specific customized guidelines. The author guidelines are mainly designed & decided by an editorial panel of that particular journal. The journal will follow the guidelines based upon the subject that one works on or focuses on. The guidelines might vary as per the subject. Most of the authors prefer to choose the high impact journals because their work get recognized over there.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
The manuscripts submitted must be of an original version with authentic data. While submitting the manuscript, one must clearly check out for the plagiarism issues and resolve them. The intext citations, reference citations must be placed properly in a manuscript before its peer review submission. 90% of the journal's works will be related to the manuscripts, where the other works include the thesis publication, short communications or opinion pieces publication, and the publication of the implementation articles, where the implementation articles are available in only a few journals.
Below are the few guidelines for developing a manuscript
The Manuscript chosen must be in English
An appropriate title is mandatory for every manuscript. The title chosen must be informative & specific.
The Author's name is aligned at the end of the manuscript. Always choose the authors names in capitals followed by the address of the correspondence
Abstract used should be of standard nomenclature & avoid citing the literature. The abstract chosen should be very informative. The keyword usage is mandatory for every abstract submission.
An brief introduction is essential for every manuscript
The materials & the methods must comprise of the experimental design techniques of the experimental area and the year of the experimentation is also mentioned
The results & the discussion are usually in the combined format & the discussion concept reveals the matter of submission
The conclusion and the acknowledgement can be in the tabular format
The references can be provided at the end of the manuscript/ article.
The Page/ Line number usage is also mandatory after every page
The word count also vary as per the standards of the publication & the editorial guidelines
The word count, formatting requirements and the reference styling will be decided by the editorial team based upon the journal which one works for
The journals of the same background have the same time lines of the submission. For eg: All medical journals have same timelines for submission
In case if the journal is a open access journal, the author name is revealed in few cases but in most of the scenarios, the author name is not revealed and one would know the date of publication, the resource of the article, manuscript etc.
Peer Review Process
The review process is highly confidential and is carried out by an efficient team of authors and the co-authors who ensures that the results being accurate. After the peer review process and after the acceptance of the article for the publication, one needs to submit a copyright form.
In case of the live experimentations, the content work is submitted with respect to the institutional body & it maintains the strict ethical values. A letter of acceptance must be received from the editorial board, if one wishes to showcase the manuscript before any media or any other institutional agencies. The manuscript submitted by the authors must be easy to use.